Equestria Needs Control

by ultspideyfan

Prologue: The Endgame

A ringing sound fills Peter's ears. He digs his hooves into the rocky surface, pulling himself free of the rubble. Throwing himself on his back, Peter was given the view of a void. No stars, no light, just blackness. That ringing was growing quite annoying at this point.

"Sp......" was that a voice? Peter brought his hooves up to his head; it was getting too noisy in there. "Spider....." the ringing seemed to die down as the voice became clearer and clearer. "Spider-Mane! What's your status?" A very authoritative voice this pony had. Wait wasn't a question asked?

"Come again?" Peter asked. His voice was scratchy, his throat ached as he spoke. What in tartarus was he doing?

"What's your status Avenger?"

"Uhh....alive. Yeah. Also a little groggy... What are we doing again?" He was pulling himself up on all fours, finding it difficult with the injuries he had sustained from doing whatever it was he had done.

"We were trying to stop Sombra from gaining control over the Crystal Empire--" Peter's eyes widen. He remembered how he was called in to aid his fellow heroes and princesses in stopping Sombra from controlling the Crystal Empire. He remembered how they were too late. How bad things got so quickly. How they were pushed to the edge.

"I'msorryCapIgottafindmywife!" He stopped listening and took off in a full on gallop, frantically searching for his wife. She had to be okay, had to be alive, he couldn't lose her too. It was a vow. His spider-sense flared when he ran across a set of debris. The shards of the castle were stacked on top of each other and according to his spider-sense, someone was underneath. He fired a net onto the crystals and, with a deep breath, flung them over his shoulder. Peter quickly looks back to find Rainbow Dash laying in the crater. Fear took a hold of his heart as he drops into the hole. Peter pulls Dash close to him, checking her for a pulse. It was faint but it was present. She needed medical attention urgently.

"Stay with me Dash; you'll be okay soon." Peter whispered in her ear. The only response he got was a pained groan. Better than nothing, he thought. His spider-sense went off again, something to his far right. As he galloped over his mind raced back to the battle that had transpired. Mainly the thing that ended it all. A crystal heart, powered by magic the princesses stated would stop Sombra, a last resort in case they were killed. And killed they were, leaving the Avengers with the heart. Tony Stark aka the Iron Stallion, built a machine to use the magic within the heart as a beam. The plan was to distract Sombra and when the opening came, Stark would fire the machine.

As Peter threw more crystals out of the way he recalled how the distraction failed. He and a few other heroes were too battered to keep up with Sombra. The machine was destroyed with the heart in shambles. They were desperate for a win, and desperate ponies did drastic actions. Tony had taken the remaining shards of the heart and placed them within his armors arc reactor, giving him a power boost. He was the one who took the fight head on with Sombra. He was also the one who ended this fight. Spider-sense had gone off before a bright wave of magic struck them all. Sombra was torn to shreds, and Tony was nothing more than a helmet of a fallen hero.

There was nothing more Peter wanted to think about. He was already surrounded by so much death. Fellow heroes, royal guard ponies, some of the elements had fallen. Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Applejack were the three of the six that were no longer with them.

Twilight Sparkle Parker finally emerged with the help of Batmane, another hero who participated in this battle. He was in no better shape than Spider-Mane. Twilight asked about her husband as she recalled the events that led to this moment. Wayne led the way, Twilight helping him stay upright and moving. Pain shot through her being as they walked. So much pain. But this was nothing compared to the sight that befell her. There in a pile of darkened crystals was Peter holding his dead friends close. He no longer wore his torn mask, opting to rip it off before finding the bodies. His tears were streaming down his face as he held them tightly. Twilight tore away from Bruce who stood there with pain written all over the mask of the bat. Some of his friends and family had fallen. Too many dead....he didn't know how to take it all at once. He dropped to his knees as Twilight wrapped herself around Peter and the girls.

Steve Rogers held up Stark's helmet. His face dropped when he let the Captain Equestria drop from his being. So many of his friends were hurt or dead. He couldn't bear to tell those close to these fallen heroes that their son, daughter, brother, sister, lover....was gone.